Game apparatus.



W. A. HATGHER.

GAME APPARATUS.

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WILLIAM A. HATGHER, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

GAME APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Q Patented June 6, 1911.

Application filed July 7, 1910. Serial No. 570,710.

. To all whom it may concern:

I: are distinguishedeach bookby the name I Alta 77 Alaska 77, 4: B n a G 2 cylin ders 4 cylinders and 6 cylindilferent from the color (as red) in which Be it known that 1, WILLIAM A. HATOHER, a citizen'of the United States, and resident of the city of Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful Game Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved game apparatus whereby amusement may be afforded, and also the same in combination with a tallying device having a certain educational value, etc. This object is attained by the apparatus hereinafter described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.

My game apparatus comprises a pack of cards, preferably of the same material and size as ordinary playing cards, and the same in combination with tallying devices. These cards are divided on three or more bases of division and are distinguished by suitable face markings. Preferably the cards are sixty, or, with the joker or scorcher card, sixty-one in number, and, for my new game, which I call automobling, are divided on the following bases of division, and are distinguished by the following described markings: Books of four cards each making in a pack of sixty cards fifteen books in all,

of some manufacturer of, or of some make of automobiles. Such books respectively I refer to hereinafter for convenience, by the words and capital letters Arctic, Ac mej,

7 7 7 7 C E 777 C F 77, (C G 77, C H 77 C I 77, CC J77 C K 77. The four cards of each book are, in reference to the cylinders of automobiles, distinguished from each other by the words 1 cylinder,

ders (or by abbreviations thereof), marked thereon respectively. In each book, tWo of these, as the 1 cylinder and the 2 cylinders cards, are printed in a color (as black) the other two, .viz., the 4 cylinders and the6 cylinders cards, are printed, thus forming throughout the pack four card suits of fifteen cards each, in a pack of sixty, and similar to the suits of playing cards, that is, the 1 cylinder suit and the 2 cylinders suit both printed in black correspond to the black suits, the clubs and spades,'while the 4 cylinders suit and the 6 cylinders suit, both printed in red, correspond to the red suits, the diamonds and hearts of playing cards. The cards, fifteen 1 in number of each such cylinder suit, are;

. highest number of miles being the highest card. The four highest, viz the 15, 14, 13 and 12 miles cards, are further distinguished as face cards, by suitable faces pictured thereon, and called in reference thereto Racer, Owner, Lady and Chauffeur, and correspond respectively to the ace, king, queen and jack of playing cards. The remaining card, the sixty-first of said pack, corresponding to the joker of playing cards, I call the Scorcher or 25 miles card, which may display a suitable and characteristic Jpicture.

Automobiles of the particular makes after which the books are called, may be pictori- V allyrepresented on the cards of such books respectively, thus serving to further distinguish the books. In my said pack the sixtyone cards are preferably marked as follows:

Acme 1 Cyl. 4 M: Acme 4 Cyl. 12 M. Chaulfeur: Acme 2 Cyl., 12 M Chauffeur: Acme 6 Cyl. 4 M. I

'Al Cyl. 2 M: A2 Cyl. 14 M Owner: A 4 Cyl.l0M:A6Gyl.6M:

Alaska 1 Cyl. 7 M: Alaska 2 Cyl. 9 M: Alaska 4 Cyl. 15 M Racer: Alaska 6 Cyl. 1 M:

B 1 Cyl. 11 M: B 2 Cyl. 5 M: B 4 Cyl. 4 M: B 6 Cyl. 12 M Chauifeur.

C 1 Cyl. 14 M Owner: G 2 Cyl. 2 M: C4 Gyl.7M:G6Cyl.9M:' v

D 1 Cyl. 15 M Racer: D 2 Cyl. 1M: D 4 Cyl.8M:D6Cyl. 8M:

Alta 1 Cyl. 13 M. Lady: Alt-a 2 Cyl. 3 M: Alta 4 Cyl. 6 M: Alta 6 Cyl. 10 M I E 1 Cyl. 5M: E 2 Cyl. 11 M: E 4 Cyl. 13

M Lady: E 6 Cyl. 3M.

Arctic 1 Cyl. 9 M: Arctic, 2 Cyl. 7 M: Arctic 4 Cyl. 2 M: Arctic 6 Cyl. 14 M Owner: F 1 Cyl. 12 M Chauffeur: F 2 Cyl. 4 M: 'F4Cyl.5M:F6Cyl. 11M:

M Owner: J 6 Cyl. 2 M:

K1 Cyl. SMzKQCyl. 8M:K4 Cyl. 1M: K6 Cyl. 15 Ml Racer, and Scorcher 25 M.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 illustrates the card marked Altal Cyl. 13 M, Lady Fig. 2 the card marked Arctic 6 Cyl. 14 M Owner; Fig. 3 the card marked Acme 2 Cyl. 12 M Chauffeur;

Fig. 4 the card marked Alaska 4 Cyl. 15 M. Racer, and Fig. 5 the Scorcher card. The cards shown in Figs. 1 and 3 should be printed in black, and those shown in Figs. 2 and 4 in red. From these illustrations the manner of marking all the cards will be readily understood. Fig. 6 represents a tally board for certain games to be played with such cards; and Fig. 7 illustrates a marker button therefor.

The words Alta, Arctic, Acme, Alaska etc., indicating the book or class to which the cards shown belong, are printed near the edge of the cards in letters of gradually increasing length, as shown, so that, as a number of cards are held in the hand in the usual position, the wedge-shaped exposed edge of each card may be employed to the best advantage to display the face markings of the card.

Various games may be played with my cards, among others my said new game Automobling, which is played as follows: Several may play; but, if there are only two players, a dummy hand must be dealt, and the game is improved if a dummy hand is dealt in any case. The entire pack is dealt to the players and the dummy, giving each player an equal number of cards and as near as may be the same number to the dummy. Each player, in order beginning to the left of the dealer, may bid for the privilege of naming the trump suit, viz., the number of cylinders, whether the 1, 2, 4 or 6 cylinder suit. The number bid corresponds to the number of tricks, '5. 6., cards played each round the bidder expects to be able to take. The player thus bidding highest announces the trump suit, 1 cylinder, 2 cylinders, 4 cylinders or 6 cylinders, as the case may be, and leads any card in his hand. Should he fail to take tricks to the number of his bid, the cards he takes count for nothing. The game proceeds as in euchre so far as right to lead, following suit led, playing trumps, etc., is concerned. The top card of the dummy hand is played last each round, and the dummy may take the trick if such card is highest, whereupon the dummy leads its next top card. After the cards first dealt are all played and the tricks taken, each player distributes the cards he has taken into their several incomplete books and determines which particular book he will endeavor to complete, announcing the name thereof, as Acme, or Alaska, or B, etc. Should two players select the same book to complete, he is entitled thereto whose number of miles (as shown by the cards he holds of such incomplete book) totals the highest number. The cards of each incomplete book so selected for completion, are laid face down beside the player who has taken the same, and the rest of the cards are dealt again. The cards of the tricks taken this time by each player helonging to his selected book are by him added to such incomplete book, and the balance of the cards are dealt again and so on until some player has completed his book. The Scorcher card may or may not be used. The game preferably includes also, as one of its points to be attained, the number of miles which the cards taken by each player total, he winning this point whose miles total the highest number. These miles may be tallied on a tally board representing an automobile race course over which the automobiles represented by my cards are supposed to travel. Preferably such tally board is an accurate map of some section of the country on which distances are marked, as shown in Fig. 6 of thedrawings, whereby a certain educational feature, as well as a mere amusement, is afforded by my game apparatus.

The course to be run on the map is selected, as that shown in dotted lines on Fig. 6, which course is divided into miles marked thereon, every five miles being indicated by a numeral, as shown. The point on the course corresponding to the total mileage of the cards taken by each player is marked, as by a button 1, thus tallying the game. Each player has a different button marked with the name of the automobile book Acme, Alaska, etc., he has selected to complete. Two such buttons, 1, one for each of two players, are shown on Fig. 6, respectively at the 13 and 17 mile points of the course. These buttons 1 may be in form or appearance an automobile wheel, as shown in Fig. 7, and may have a downwardly explayed with an ordinary pack of playing cards.

Not confining myself to the details of construction shown and described further than as set forth in the claims, I claim:

1. A game apparatus comprising'a pack of cards distinguishingly divided into books each comprising an equal number of cards, and also on another basis of division into suits, each comprising an equal number of cards, the cards of each suit being characterized according to their relative value, and the cards of each book totaling the same in value. i

2. A game apparatus comprising a pack of cards distinguishingly divided into books, each comprising an equal number of cards, and also on another basis of division into suits, each comprising an equal number of cards, the cards of each suit being characterized according to their relative value corresponding to distances, the cards of each book totaling the same in value, and a tally board in form a racecourse with distances indicated thereon.

3. A game apparatus comprising a pack of cards distinguishingly divided into books each comprising an equal number of cards and named respectively after makes of automo biles, and also on another basis distinguishingly divided into suits comprising an equal number of cards and named respectively a difierent number of cylinders, the cards of each suit being characterized by a different number of miles according to their relative value, and the cards ofeach book totaling the same in value.

4:. A game apparatus comprising a pack of cards distinguishingly divided into books each comprising an equal number of cards and named respectively after makes of automobiles, and also on another basis distinguishingly divided into suits comprising an equal number of cards and names respectively a difierent number of cylinders, the cards of each suit being characterized by a different number of miles according to their relative value, the cards of each book totaling the same in value, and a tally board in form a geographical map with distances indicated thereon.

5. A game apparatus comprising a pack of cards distinguishingly divided into books each comprising an equal number of cards and named respectively after makes of automobiles, and also on another basis distinguishingly divided into suits com prising an equal number of cards and named respectively a different number of cylinders, the cards of each suit being characterized by a difierent number of miles according to their relative value, the highest in value in each suit being called Racer, the neXt Owner, the next Lady and the next Chauffeur, each distinguished by face pictures thereon, and the cards of each book totaling the same in value.

6. A game apparatus comprising a pack of cards distinguishingly divided into books each comprising an equal number of cards and named respectively after makes of automobiles, and also on another basis distinguishingly divided into suits comprising an equal number of cards and named respectively a diiierent number of cylinders, the cards of each suit being characterized by a different number of miles according to their relative value, and the cards of each book totaling the same in value, a tally board in form a geographical map with distances indicated thereon, and markers for said tally board simulating automobile wheels and marked respectively to correspond with the makes of automobiles distinguishing the card books.

In witness whereof, I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM A. HATCHER.

Witnesses:

MARY SoHUL'rE, HARRY F. JOHNSON.

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